Kensey is a Managing Director and the Head of U.S. Corporate ESG at Teneo, a CEO advisory firm with 43 offices globally and over 1,200 clients.
Kensey has over 20 years of experience as a trusted advisor, including over a decade counseling companies on ESG and investor relations. At Teneo, she advises companies on ESG strategy, oversight, integration and reporting. With her deep experience in investor relations, Kensey brings an investor’s perspective to ESG, favoring a data-driven approach focused on the link between material sustainability factors and a company’s financial performance.
Before Teneo, Kensey was a Senior Vice President covering ESG at Truist, a top U.S. bank formed from SunTrust and BB&T’s merger. She helped build the new bank’s ESG practice from the ground up. Before Truist, she was a Senior Counselor at Abernathy MacGregor, where she built the firm’s first ESG client offering in 2017 and was a founding Co-Chair of the company’s Global ESG Taskforce. Prior to Abernathy, Kensey founded her own consulting firm Dalloway Advisory Group. Earlier in her career, she spent four years at Teneo, joining as the firm’s 13th employee in 2011. She started her career in finance at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Kensey was named one of the Top 25 Sustainability Leaders in Consulting in 2022 and 2023, as well as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by the National Diversity Council. She serves on JUST Capital’s JUST Gen Committee and lives in Nashville with her husband and son.
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